"The G minor Quintet receives a very fine, very substantial performance from this period-instrument group. The opening Allegro goes at quite a lively tempo but there is a real breadth to the rhythms and an expansiveness of phrasing which ensure that the scale of the music is properly realized, with considerable intensity at the contrapuntal climaxes of the recapitulation, surely the movement's high points. The minuet is quite brisk, considering that Mozart marked it Allegretto (presumably that was intended to mean 'slower than usual'), and a bit uncompromising, with the chords almost brutal. But the Adagio is wonderfully done, slow, deeply serious, with real tenderness and warmth. I wished only that the players would occasionally give themselves a little more space to articulate the changes in texture and mood more distinctly, and to let the music breathe. The finale, after an introduction of fine concentration, moves with great fire and energy: no sense, as sometimes with this movement, of an easy G major let-down after all the G minor passion. The passion never falters."

-- Gramophone [9/1995]